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[Silas Thorne]

Before the break
he told me
what he said about her and him and him
and her
and then again after the break.
But you will never get off the island
John from the Red team,
for you must kill to win
and I have a trigger, on my remote.

[Silas Thorne]

Coconut-breasted girl
you shake me
with your hips
and carefully timed footwork.

From your luscious crimson lips
my two corrupted pupils
drop down your back
sweat

drops
budding beads
flying
off to the floor
where I sit, eating pawpaw.
Juices trickling down my chin,
a dog, I lap you up.

[Silas Thorne]

You delight me

You delight me.
Your silken touch
it makes, me
turn, away.

You delight me.

And through this peep of day
the fountain of your hair
streams over every light
and shakes with every move…ment
you delight me.

You delight me.


And thought we cannot touch
Yet we are touching still
Alight at every mo..tion
You delight me.

[Silas Thorne]

Are you the person, the householder
the one, who pays the bills?
If so,
do you know
we have
a special offer
sign on the dotted line.
Answer, and we'll listen, vaguely
for you have no words
but concepts, in our sub-routines.
Get with the system!
You'll fit into the program!
We'll happily spit you out
at the bottom.
You say, 'yes', we have a plan.
You say, 'no', we have a plan.
'Wait to tomorrow'
we'll tell you tomorrow the special's off
you'll lose the deal
for we hold the wheel
we hold the keys
sign the cheque, give us the numbers
we drive, you listen.
Just sign and your phone
will stay quiet

until next time.

[Silas Thorne]

I live with ghosts.

Though everything complete
admits no addition
once in my Spring step smiled
a sweet voice of greeting
and I, too timid to respond
walked on, and ever do return.

Large parts of me do not exist.
When Spring's new growth bursts from the earth
I think of the fire,
with sunset comes that same day's peeping flame.

Under the sun, a snake's life circle runs
forever biting its own end
constantly backwards about coming forwards.

I live with ghosts, in two halves
large parts of me do not exist.

[Silas Thorne]

Conventionally expected
must be distinguished
from purely situational,
or personal
and from latent

or unintended.